A zonal boundary element method for analysing heat exchangers with thin extended surfaces

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 103-107

  Decorps, S A M ^a   Kelmanson, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ ET INSA DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Block tridiagonal matrices; Green's functions; Integral equations

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

BLOCK TRIDIAGONAL MATRICES; ZONAL BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD (ZBEM);

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0031122916     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(97)00058-8     Document Type: Article

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